Sustainable assessment of academic buildings at Universiti Teknologi Petronas campus

Abstract

The objectives of this study are; to investigate the most suitable method for Sustainable Building Assessment, to gather the data of specific indicator and validate each criteria according to sustainable building assessment benchmark. However, variables like energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, sustainable site planning and management, available materials and resources, water efficiency and innovation were integrated and separately studied to develop a sustainable academic building environment in the campus of university Petronas, Malaysia. Sustainable assessment tools, GBI tool and in-depth literature review were used. The result shows that GBI sustainable building assessment of Universiti Teknologi Petronas scores 43 out of 64 which is 67% of the total score hence the rating would be Silver. This result proves that some improvements need to be made on some parameters, which did not pass the requirements. In a nutshell, Universiti Teknologi Petronas has high potential to meet GBI certified level that will help to increase the ranking status of the university to higher level. This also would be a great opportunity for the university to set a benchmark as a role model of green university in Malaysia. However, this study recommends that UTP management develops corrective policies to improve the building overall performance and standard.